Re: Extract Attachment from Mail

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At 16:55 on 16 Feb 2007, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 16 February 2007, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > 
> >>I think that this is not quite true. "Sheep" and "fish" both have
> >>another plural "sheeps" and "fishes", but I do not believe that
> >>"mails" is a word, except as a verb.
> >>
> > 
> > 'Fishes', yes, 'sheeps', no.
> 
> I stand corrected. I could not find "sheeps" in a largish
> dictionary. I have heard it used, however, by farmers
> in South Texas, and in that sense. This could be a case
> of the dictionary writers just not knowing.

Oxford English Dictionary (which I would think was fairly definitive)
notes the use of sheeps.

-- 
Mark Knoop


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